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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
Lillian Hellman
Styles in wit change so.
Lillian Hellman
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
Lillian Hellman
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman
